2 Thessalonians 1:3

Geneva Bible (1560)

We ought to thanke God alwayes for you, brethren, as it is meete, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the loue of euery one of you toward another, aboundeth,

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  • 2 Thess 2:13 : 13 But we ought to giue thankes alway to God for you, brethren beloued of the Lord, because that God hath from the beginning chosen you to saluation, through sanctification of the Spirit, and the faith of trueth,
  • 1 Thess 4:1 : 1 And furthermore we beseeche you, brethren, and exhort you in the Lord Iesus, that ye increase more and more, as ye haue receiued of vs, how ye ought to walke, and to please God.
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Hauing purified your soules in obeying the trueth through the spirite, to loue brotherly without faining, loue one another with a pure heart feruently,
  • 2 Pet 1:5-9 : 5 Therefore giue euen all diligence thereunto: ioyne moreouer vertue with your faith: and with vertue, knowledge: 6 And with knowledge, temperance: and with temperance, patience: and with patience, godlines: 7 And with godlines, brotherly kindnes: and with brotherly kindnes, loue. 8 For if these things be among you, and abound, they will make you that ye neither shalbe idle, nor vnfruitfull in the acknowledging of our Lord Iesus Christ: 9 For he that hath not these things, is blinde, and can not see farre off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his olde sinnes. 10 Wherefore, brethren, giue rather diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye doe these things, ye shall neuer fall.
  • Rom 1:8 : 8 First I thanke my God through Iesus Christ for you all, because your faith is published throughout the whole world.
  • 1 Cor 1:4 : 4 I thanke my God alwayes on your behalfe for the grace of God, which is giuen you in Iesus Christ,
  • Eph 5:20 : 20 Giuing thankes alwaies for all thinges vnto God euen the Father, in the Name of our Lorde Iesus Christ,
  • Phil 1:7 : 7 As it becommeth me so to iudge of you all, because I haue you in remembrance that both in my bands, and in my defence, & confirmation of the Gospell you all were partakers of my grace.
  • Phil 1:9 : 9 And this I pray, that your loue may abound, yet more and more in knowledge, and in all iudgement,
  • 1 Thess 1:2-3 : 2 We giue God thankes alwayes for you all, making mention of you in our prayers 3 Without ceasing, remembring your effectuall faith, and diligent loue, and the patience of your hope in our Lord Iesus Christ, in the sight of God euen our Father,
  • 1 Thess 3:6 : 6 But now lately when Timotheus came fro you vnto vs, and brought vs good tidings of your faith and loue, & that ye haue good remembrance of vs alwayes, desiring to see vs, as we also do you,
  • 1 Thess 3:9 : 9 For what thankes can wee recompense to God againe for you, for all the ioy wherewith we reioyce for your sakes before our God,
  • 1 Thess 3:12 : 12 And the Lord increase you, and make you abound in loue one toward another, and towarde all men, euen as we doe toward you:
  • Job 17:9 : 9 But the righteous wil holde his way, & he whose hands are pure, shall increase his strength.
  • Ps 84:7 : 7 They goe from strength to strength, till euery one appeare before God in Zion.
  • Ps 92:13 : 13 Such as bee planted in the house of the Lord, shall flourish in the courtes of our God.
  • Prov 4:18 : 18 But the way of the righteous shineth as the light, that shineth more and more vnto the perfite day.
  • Isa 40:29-31 : 29 But he giueth strength vnto him that fainteth, and vnto him that hath no strength, he encreaseth power. 30 Euen the yong men shall faint, and be wearie, and the yong men shall stumble and fall. 31 But they that waite vpon the Lord, shall renue their strength: they shall lift vp the wings as the eagles: they shall runne, and not be wearie, and they shall walke and not faint.
  • Luke 15:32 : 32 It was meete that we shoulde make merie, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is aliue againe: and hee was lost, but he is found.
  • Luke 17:5 : 5 And the Apostles saide vnto the Lorde, Increase our faith.
  • John 15:2 : 2 Euery branch that beareth not fruite in me, he taketh away: and euery one that beareth fruite, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruite.
  • 2 Pet 1:13 : 13 For I thinke it meete as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stirre you vp by putting you in remembrance,
  • 2 Pet 3:18 : 18 But growe in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lorde and Sauiour Iesus Christ: to him be glory both now and for euermore. Amen.
  • 1 Thess 4:9-9 : 9 But as touching brotherly loue, ye neede not that I write vnto you: for ye are taught of God to loue one another. 10 Yea, and that thing verily yee doe vnto all the brethren, which are throughout all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more,

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  • 1 Thess 3:6-12
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    6But now lately when Timotheus came fro you vnto vs, and brought vs good tidings of your faith and loue, & that ye haue good remembrance of vs alwayes, desiring to see vs, as we also do you,

    7Therefore, brethren, we had consolation in you, in all our affliction and necessitie through your faith.

    8For nowe are wee aliue, if ye stand fast in the Lorde.

    9For what thankes can wee recompense to God againe for you, for all the ioy wherewith we reioyce for your sakes before our God,

    10Night and day, praying exceedingly that wee might see your face, and might accomplish that which is lacking in your faith?

    11Nowe God himselfe, euen our Father, and our Lord Iesus Christ, guide our iourney vnto you,

    12And the Lord increase you, and make you abound in loue one toward another, and towarde all men, euen as we doe toward you:

  • 1 Thess 1:2-3
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    2We giue God thankes alwayes for you all, making mention of you in our prayers

    3Without ceasing, remembring your effectuall faith, and diligent loue, and the patience of your hope in our Lord Iesus Christ, in the sight of God euen our Father,

  • 2 Thess 1:4
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    4So that we our selues reioyce of you in the Churches of God, because of your patience & faith in al your persecutions & tribulatios that ye suffer,

  • 1 Cor 1:4-5
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    4I thanke my God alwayes on your behalfe for the grace of God, which is giuen you in Iesus Christ,

    5That in all things ye are made rich in him, in all kinde of speech, and in all knowledge:

  • Col 1:3-4
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    3We giue thankes to God euen ye Father of our Lord Iesus Christ, always praying for you:

    4Since wee heard of your faith in Christ Iesus, and of your loue toward all Saintes,

  • Phil 1:3-5
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    3I thanke my God, hauing you in perfect memorie,

    4(Alwayes in all my praiers for all you, praying with gladnesse)

    5Because of the felowship which ye haue in the Gospel, from the first day vnto nowe.

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    4I giue thanks to my God, making mention alwaies of thee in my praiers,

    5(When I heare of thy loue & faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Iesus, and towarde all Saintes)

    6That the fellowship of thy faith may bee made effectuall, and that whatsoeuer good thing is in you through Christ Iesus, may be knowen.

    7For we haue great ioy and consolation in thy loue, because by thee, brother, the Saintes bowels are comforted.

    8Wherefore, though I bee very bolde in Christ to commaunde thee that which is conuenient,

  • Eph 1:15-16
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    15Therefore also after that I heard of the faith, which ye haue in the Lord Iesus, and loue toward all the Saints,

    16I cease not to giue thankes for you, making mention of you in my prayers,

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    10Yea, and that thing verily yee doe vnto all the brethren, which are throughout all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more,

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    11Wherefore, we also pray alwayes for you, that our God may make you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodnes, and the worke of faith with power,

    12That the Name of our Lorde Iesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God, and of the Lorde Iesus Christ.

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    7Therefore, as yee abound in euery thing, in faith and woorde, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your loue towardes vs, euen so see that yee abound in this grace also.

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    11So that ye labour together in prayer for vs, that for the gift bestowed vpon vs for many, thankes may be giuen by many persons for vs.

    12For our reioycing is this, the testimonie of our conscience, that in simplicitie and godly purenesse, and not in fleshly wisedome, but by the grace of God wee haue had our conuersation in the worlde, and most of all to you wardes.

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    11That on all partes yee may bee made rich vnto all liberalitie, which causeth through vs thanksgiuing vnto God.

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    8First I thanke my God through Iesus Christ for you all, because your faith is published throughout the whole world.

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    7So that ye were as ensamples to all that beleeue in Macedonia and in Achaia.

    8For from you sounded out the worde of the Lord, not in Macedonia and in Achaia only: but your faith also which is toward God, spred abroad in all quarters, that we neede not to speake any thing.

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    15For all thinges are for your sakes, that that most plenteous grace by the thankesgiuing of many, may redound to the praise of God.

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    13But we ought to giue thankes alway to God for you, brethren beloued of the Lord, because that God hath from the beginning chosen you to saluation, through sanctification of the Spirit, and the faith of trueth,

  • Col 2:7
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    7Rooted and built in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye haue bene taught, abouding therein with thankesgiuing.

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    2Grace be with you, & peace fro God our Father, and from the Lorde Iesus Christ.

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    13For this cause also thanke we God without ceasing, that when ye receiued the worde of God, which ye heard of vs, ye receiued it not as the worde of men, but as it is in deede the worde of God, which also worketh in you that beleeue.

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    7And with godlines, brotherly kindnes: and with brotherly kindnes, loue.

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    7As it becommeth me so to iudge of you all, because I haue you in remembrance that both in my bands, and in my defence, & confirmation of the Gospell you all were partakers of my grace.

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    9And this I pray, that your loue may abound, yet more and more in knowledge, and in all iudgement,

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    14And in their praier for you, to log after you greatly, for the aboundant grace of God in you.

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    5Beloued, thou doest faithfully, whatsoeuer thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers,

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    1And furthermore we beseeche you, brethren, and exhort you in the Lord Iesus, that ye increase more and more, as ye haue receiued of vs, how ye ought to walke, and to please God.

  • Col 1:10
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    10That ye might walke worthy of the Lord, & please him in all things, being fruitefull in all good workes, and increasing in the knowledge of God,

  • Col 1:8
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    8Who hath also declared vnto vs your loue in the Spirit.

  • Eph 5:20
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    20Giuing thankes alwaies for all thinges vnto God euen the Father, in the Name of our Lorde Iesus Christ,

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    15And his inwarde affection is more aboundant toward you, when he remembreth the obedience of you all, and howe with feare and trembling ye receiued him.

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    16And thanks be vnto God, which hath put in the heart of Titus the same care for you.